Website Backups: What Happens When Your Site Goes Down
A website backup is a saved copy of your whole site, files and database together, kept somewhere safe so you can bring the site back when something breaks. If your site goes down and you have a recent backup, recovery is usually a matter of hours. If you have no backup, recovery can mean rebuilding pages, products, and content by hand, and some of it may be gone for good. That is the whole subject in one paragraph. The rest of this article explains what a backup actually contains, what the two versions of a bad day look like, how often you should back up, where the copies should live, and the exact questions to ask your developer. What a Website Backup Actually Is A backup is a copy of your website as it works today, stored separately from the live site. Think of it as a spare key. You hope you never need it, but the day you do, nothing else will do the job. Sites go down for ordinary reasons. A plugin update conflicts with the theme. Someone deletes the wrong folder during a clean...